Meta-Aggregators of the Crimson Hexagon
Left politics and labor: a meta-aggregator
A census of the archives, editions, trackers and organizing records of left politics and labor, read one resource at a time from its own pages. Every field is quoted from a saved copy of the resource's own pages, with the date read and a hash of the copy. Compiled 2026-10-31; editor Lee Sharks.
The census asks of each resource: Whose record does it keep, who holds it, and does it keep the losing side in a form that could be taken up later?
The question comes from Ils ne sont pas marxistes: r/LeftistsForAI, Marx's Legacy, and the Left's Lost Capacity for Internal Critique (AXN:0B50, #1725). Its finding: a defeated critique survives where it keeps an organ in which it can go on being stated, a holder with standing independent of the body it criticized, and a route by which it could later be taken up. An archive or a periodical can be that organ. This census records which resources show it.
Its sibling census, on the intersections of labor and AI, is Labor Vector, which also appears below as one of the resources read.
Texts of the tradition: primary writings of Marx, Engels and the socialist movements, in editions and translations
Marxists Internet Archive
all-volunteer, non-profit public library · the Marxists Internet Archive, an all-volunteer non-profit with a Steering Committee and an Admin Committee; 76 active volunteers from several dozen countries (July 2025)
Texts of the traditionArchives and custodyactive
The losing side: the introduction states that the MIA does not 'judge' writers, ended in 2007 its practice of dividing all writers into Marxists and non-Marxists, does not filter out a writer's distasteful views, and endorses none of the views it archives; the saved introduction names no section for splits or expelled tendencies (EROL, an anti-revisionist section, is served under its History path; see relations)
MEGAdigital
Online-Abteilung (online division) of the historisch-kritische Ausgabe (historical-critical edition) of Marx and Engels, the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) · Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), as an Akademienvorhaben (academy project), Jägerstr. 22/23, Berlin; the MEGA page also lists IMES
Texts of the traditionactive
The losing side: not recorded as such; the edition keeps Marx's and Engels's own drafts, excerpts and correspondence, including letters to them from others, and the saved page names no apparatus for rival tendencies
Movement and party documents: programmes, polemics, internal bulletins, periodicals, the record of splits
BannedThought.net
web site that exists 'to struggle against the fascist-like suppression of progressive ideas'; it publicizes suppression and posts documents and publications suppressed elsewhere · not named in the saved source; the site states it is independent and unaffiliated with any political party (contact freespeech@bannedthought.net)
Movement documentsTexts of the traditionactive
The losing side: the site files rival parties of one tradition side by side: both parties of the Nepal split, the CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) [formerly CPN Maoist] and the CPN (Maoist Centre) [formerly UCPN (Maoist)], each with its documents and statements; several CPI (M-L) parties (the original 1969 party, People's War, Naxalbari, Satyanaran Singh / PCC) and 'Other Parties and Groups Espousing Mao Tsetung Thought'; 'The Views of Various UCPN(M) Leaders'; the Sino-Soviet 'Great Debate'; and a 'Two Lines Struggle Journal'. Its own criterion is suppression by governments, and it names its sections in its own terms ('Revisionist', 'Social-Imperialist')
Encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism On-Line
online encyclopedia of information on, and primary documents from, anti-revisionist movements, organizations and parties, by country · an EROL Administrator (named only as such on the saved page), within the Marxists Internet Archive's History section by its URL
Movement documentsTexts of the traditionactive
The losing side: the encyclopedia is organized around splits and defeat: U.S. sections titled 'Crises, Splits and More New Parties, 1977-1980', 'Birth of the Anti-Dogmatist Trend, 1976-1977', 'Anti-Dogmatists Unable to Unite, 1978-1980', 'Collapse and Aftermath' and 'Major Issues and Debates'; Canada's 'Crisis and Collapse, 1982-1983'; the UK's 'Ebbing Tide: Decline and Dissolution'. The tendency it records is itself a minority defined against 'revisionism'
Amiel Melburn Trust Archive
an online database of socialist and radical writings · the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust, Registered Charity No. 281239, London; site by Common Knowledge
Movement documentsArchives and custodyactive
The losing side: the New Reasoner page records the case directly: The Reasoner was critical of what its editors saw as the Communist Party of Great Britain's dogmatism; E.P. Thompson and John Saville refused the leadership's instruction to close it, were suspended, resigned in protest at the Soviet invasion of Hungary, and relaunched as the New Reasoner, which ran ten issues and later merged with Universities and Left Review to become New Left Review. The archive holds The Reasoner (3 issues, 1956) and all ten New Reasoner issues
libcom.org Collections
a website's collections index, organised under the tabs Tags, Archives, Authors, Reading guides, Blogs and Galleries · not stated in the saved text; the site's pages are submitted under the account 'libcom', and the About pages saved answered 404
Movement documentsTexts of the traditionLabor actionactive
The losing side: not recorded as a policy; the tag list names writers of tendencies apart from the party traditions (Amadeo Bordiga, Anton Pannekoek, Gilles Dauvé) and the related content carries a pamphlet by Solidarity (London), without the saved text saying how the site treats splits or dissent
Irish Left Archive
an online archive of materials relating to Irish left politics, freely accessible and easy to download and reproduce · not named beyond its origin: the archive states it was initiated by the Cedar Lounge Revolution; podcast episodes and commentary are posted by Aonrud
Movement documentsArchives and custodyLabor actionactive
The losing side: it keeps rival organisations' documents side by side under their own names: the saved home page shows the Communist Party of Ireland and the Socialist Workers' Party, The Leninist group (CPGB) and the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee), the British and Irish Communist Organisation; a collection 'shows some of the positions taken by the British left'; a timeline records organisations and parties from 1900; participants add accounts and comments (one commenter states they were one of the five who produced Focalín). The saved text does not describe splits or expulsions as a category
Labor Notes
a media and organizing project: monthly magazine, website, books, conferences and workshops, and a network of rank-and-file members, local union leaders and labor activists · Labor Notes; the site footer names the Labor Education and Research Project as copyright holder
Movement documentsWorker powerLabor actionactive
The losing side: kept as its sources show: an independent publication that states it is 'free to include the voices who say we could be doing better', whose about page criticizes union leaders ('doing a poor job of navigating us through the crisis'), and whose current stories report members contesting their own locals ('Members Alarmed by End-Run around Democracy at Buffalo Health Care Local'; 'UFCW Members Protect Local Election After Sham Merger Attempt'). Whether it keeps the record of positions after they lose is not shown in the saved pages
Archives and custody: collections of papers and records of labor and the left, held for later readers
International Institute of Social History
research institute holding collections in socio-economic history, and a data centre on socio-economic history · the International Institute of Social History, an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), in its Humanities Cluster
Archives and custodyMovement documentsactive
The losing side: not recorded
Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
labor archives; the largest labor archives in North America, in its own words; also home of the Wayne State University Archives · Wayne State University (the library is the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit)
Archives and custodyMovement documentsactive
The losing side: not recorded
Labor action: strikes, stoppages and protest events, counted and described
Labor Action Tracker
database (tracker) of strike and labor protest activity across the United States, with a map · Cornell University's ILR School and the University of Illinois' LER School (a collaboration since January 2024); project director Johnnie Kallas, Assistant Professor at Illinois LER
Labor actionactive
The losing side: not recorded
Crowd Counting Consortium
a public interest and scholarly project documenting protests and demonstrations in the United States, publishing an event dataset · Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Connecticut (joint project), part of the Nonviolent Action Lab at the Ash Center; begun by Jeremy Pressman (UConn) and Erica Chenoweth (HKS)
Labor actionactive
The losing side: not recorded. The data are used to study protest, counter-protest and state response; the saved page shows nothing of the positions, splits or dissent inside the movements counted
Global Nonviolent Action Database
database of case studies of nonviolent action campaigns, browsable by case, tag, method and map · Swarthmore College, including the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, the Peace Collection, and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
Labor actionactive
The losing side: not recorded. A 'Limitations of the Database' page and coding definitions are listed and were not read; the saved pages do not show whether failed campaigns or splits inside campaigns are recorded
Worker power measured: membership, coverage, rights, and the organizing that builds it
Union Membership and Coverage Database
an Internet data resource of union membership, coverage and density estimates, published as historical tables · Barry Hirsch (Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University), David Macpherson (Department of Economics, Trinity University) and William Even (Department of Economics, Miami University)
Worker poweractive
The losing side: not recorded
Meta-aggregation: a resource that itself gathers and reads other resources
Labor Vector
the canonical definition surface for Directionality of Semantic Labor and the interoperable metric program, carrying a meta-aggregator on labor and AI (a census of 15 resources) · Lee Sharks (Semantic Economy Institute / Crimson Hexagonal Archive), the editor of this census
Meta-aggregationWorker poweractive
The losing side: not recorded: its organizing question is who supplies, directs and receives the gains of labor, and each record states what its resource cannot answer
Pending
Sources that could not be read on 2026-10-31 and are held for the next batch: bls-work-stoppages, ituc-global-rights-index, tdu, strike-map-uk, tamiment-library.
The census as data: census.json (schema 1.0). The MMRS, provenance and Labor Vector census core (slug, name, aka, url, operator, kind, unit, count, lifecycle, version_and_time, negative_tags, evidence, relations, unchecked, sources) extended for left politics and labor: areas (one or more of six), evidence_kind, record_object (what it records), record (keeps: whose record; holder: who holds it and on what terms; losing_side: whether and how it keeps minority positions, splits, expulsions and dissent, as the resource itself shows, or 'not recorded'), method, coverage, holdings, stated_limits, answers and does_not_answer, and ml_reading (where it meets the question of #1725: the archive's reading, kept apart from the resource's own terms). Every quote is verbatim from a saved source.